The Christie, Sweeney, Norcross pension deal is another salvo in the war on the freedom and rights of the American middle class. They are exploiting the financial meltdown of the pension system caused by underfunding and a collapse of the economic house of cards built by Wall Street to attack worker's rights. They say the system needs fixing but when all interested parties agreed to serious discussions they launched a preemptive strike because it's not about the money, it's about eliminating collective bargaining rights. It rankles Christie that these uppity wage slaves have the nerve to fight for a better life for themselves and their family, so he is doing something about it. Christie is a cunning political operative, he knows what to grease and when to grease it, he knows how to play on the basest instincts of the people he is supposed to serve, to play one group against another, to inspire envy, to make greed a virtue. A check of his record makes his motives and modus operandi clear. Those he finds useful profit and the people pay the bill. Take a look at who stands to benefit from the sale of the networks. Why would we want a man who has intimate connections to a Newark political power broker controlling our news? But I digress.
The point is simple: the man believes in power, he makes no bones about that and it is why many people like him. We want to believe that there is a hero who can save the day, witness the explosion of movies inspired by Marvel Comics, but it doesn't work like that in the real world. Fans of Obama have seen that even he cannot leap tall building in a single bound, but that for another day. Chris Christie knows the corruption of New Jersey politics, he is an insider with intimate knowledge of how things get done and he is getting it done.
Will we in New Jersey let Boss Christie strip away worker's rights or will we stand up to the bully. I'm hoping it's the latter, better to be bloodied than to be bled dry.
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